Clifford Mashiri
20 April 2011
opinion
THE humiliating capture of Laurent Gbagbo in a white vest on Sunday by forces loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara who won presidential elections in Ivory Coast must have come as a big shock to President Robert Mugabe’s ally Jonathan Moyo.
In January Jonathan Moyo poured scorn at the popularly elected leader of the Ivory Coast Ouattara in the same way he does Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
“You have a candidate created by the so-called international community. Ouattara is of disputed nationality, whom the courts in that country have over the years found him not to be Ivorian,” Moyo said in January.
Despite calls by Jonathan Moyo on Gbagbo to refuse to vacate office saying “the so-called international community” was meddling in Ivory Coast affairs, Quattara had the last laugh when he managed to capture a very scared and sweating Gbagbo in the presidential palace. As noted by other analysts, the fall of Gbagbo is a clear message to other dictators to heed the warning from the international community to think twice before stealing elections.
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Think Twice Before Stealing Elections